Picket-fence



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E. F. SHELLABERGBR.

PIGKET FENCE.

y VUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PlCKET-FENCE. f

A SBECIFICATIN forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,35*?, dated September 4, 1883.

n a Application filed` May 31, 1883. (No model.)` I

To all whom it may concern,.- 1

` lABe it known that I, EDWARD F. SHELLA-- BERGER, a citizen of the'. United States, resid-Q ing at Dayton,'in the county 0f Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Picket-Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

which `will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the `i11- vention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked -\t.hereon, which form a part of Vthisy taching the same to the upper vand lower horizontal strands of wire in a diagonal position, the object being to prevent sagging between the posts. `I attain the object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is aside view of a panel of the fence.

The fence is manufactured in a machine, and

vconsists `of strands of wire G, each strand having two wires.` Between thewires are placed the wooden slats B, the strands being twisted successively as the Aslates are placed within.

It is thus manufactured in considerable lengths,

and is rolled up for transportation. During `and described.

the process of manufactifre the wire D is interwoven with the slats and embraces the upper strand at the point of attachment to the posts A, and also embraces the lower strand 35` at a point equidistant from -the posts. The several strands are attached-tothe posts by the staples O. The stay-wire preventssag ging, which is an objection to this form of fence.

I disclaim the invention'of a diagonal wire to stay-fencing panels other than the specific construction herein `set forth, and am aware. thatpanels of fencing have been formed of strands of wire with wooden slats interwoven therein. V

Having fully described my invention, what` I claim, and desire to secure by Letters' Patent, 1s y.

In a wire fence consisting of a series of hori-` zontal strands of wire interwoven with wooden slats, theoblique stay-wire D,\continuously interwoven with said slats and embracing the top and `bottom strands, substantially as shown In testimony that I claim the foregoing 'as my own I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDW'ARD F. SHELLABERGER.

Vitnesses:

B. PIOKERING,

SUMNER T. SMITH. 

